U.S. Machine Gun Ban Upheld by 3rd Circuit

[SecularMotion]

(CN) — Tossing a challenge Wednesday over one man's homemade M-16, the Third Circuit said the Second Amendment does not protect possession of machine guns.

Ryan Watson formed the Watson Family Gun trust to win government permission to make and register an M-16-style machine gun.

Though the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives initially approved Watson's 2014 application, and accepted his $200 tax, it changed its mind a month later.

Watson says William Boyle III, head of the National Firearms Act Branch of the ATF, wrote to Watson the trust Watson had formed did not shield him from the ban against machine guns under the Gun Control Act.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/05/18/u-s-machine-gun-ban-upheld-by-3rd-circuit.htm

[ileus]

1. Full autos can't be manufactured.

How did they ever let this slip by in the first place???

[aikoaiko]

2. It should.

An M-16 style rifle obviously has "some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia" and passes the Miller test.